pentacrostic

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noun

A set of verses arranged so that the name of the subject occurs five times, the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounpentacrostic (plural pentacrostics)

plural pentacrostics

  1. A set of verses arranged so that the name of the subject occurs five times, the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.

    There were also pentacrostics, where the name was repeated five times.

    1863, Sophy Moody, What is Your Name?, page 176
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    1872, Crack (pseud.), Whetstones for wits; or, Double acrostics There are instances […] of pentacrostics, i.e., of acrostics where the required letters form five columns in the poem. An average specimen of these is the Latin acrostic in hexameter verse, prefixed to the first volume of Father Bluteau's Portuguese Dictionary, in praise of the author.

    Rojas […] has left us a pentacrostic from which we learn his name, and that he was a lawyer and a native of Montalvan in the province of Toledo.

    1897, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 116

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